This rather strange but quasi-rational thought came to me during the scene in the movie when they are returning the fixed gnome and the little wheelbarrow to go with it. Something about the sense of calm that it brought to Tom Wilkinson's character in the crazy times of layoffs and job losses just made sense to me. Luckily as a young one I'm a fair ways off from gnome time, but it's nice to think that that's in the future somewhere.